Hi Patrik, > I would like to play Chess960 in Scid vs. PC but the feature is not worked > on as i understand it.
Yes, Scid vs PC does not support Chess960: 1. The quite complicated castling rules are not implemented. The implementation of these rules has more impact than only the change of one function, the internal move generator has to be changed, and some more. This is not trivial, and requires a good knowledge of the code. 2. The opening tree is not prepared for Chess960 positions. Scid is using some acceleration data for fast position search, without this acceleration the opening tree couldn't be so fast, but the acceleration works only for standard chess positions. With Chess960 databases the opening tree is working, but quite slow. > I wanted to try this last night but the UCI_Chess960 UCI config option for > Stockfish was not presented in the UI so i couldn't tick the box. Any > special reason why this option is being neglected? The UCI_Chess960 configuration is not supported. Scid cannot handle Chess960 castling, and this is the precondition for Chess960 engine support. Cheers, Gregor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scidvspc-users mailing list Scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users
